Presenter: Pat Hoberg and Dale Dodds
School District: Warwick School District
Email:
Blog Notes on Finding the Best Resources for Your Projects
Presented by librarians
Blogged by JoAnne Hangen CFF Coach Lancaster (McCaskey HS)
TALK to your LIBRARIAN
- local search engine
- cybrarian
- copyright, fair use, ethical, legal expert
- information and resource specialists
- know how to set up project from a literacy standpoint
- collaborator, co-teacher
- counsultant
- know digital resources
- cheerleaders and commiseraters
- information literacy
- can help narrow down resources
Information Literate Students
- Know how to find resources
- Critically evaluates sources
Invisible Web – Subscription Databases have expensive resources that are already paid for by the state, school, or IU which means they are free for the teachers and students, moreover, they are better quality than those resources that are free to the whole world.
- the best resources are not necessary free
- schools have subscription databases, accessible from library homepage
- basic level, New Book of Knowledge,
- next level, World Book Online
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- Power Library – phenomenal – can get from home – in school
Use monitored search engines
- Nettrekker – can have it read aloud to students, indicates reading level
Get ID and password from librarian or IU
Evaluate for reliability
– Velcro crop crisis – lesson to prove that if it is in print it isn’t necessarily true
-.edu but look for ~ (tilde) which means it is a personal website and may be biased
- Use Wikipedia for references and external links, but watch out for inaccuracies
- Google is in business to make money, not meant for good research
Destiny
- embedded search engine, looks to the web and library catalogue
- library book search and website search done simultaneously
- Web Path Express – gives just websites, leveled by grade, moderated
Subject Directories
- Internet Public Library
- Librarians’ Internet Index
- Kathy Schrock – good for 9th grade
- Blue Web’N
Books are not to be overlooked.
“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.” Linton Weeks, The Washington Post, January 13, 2001
Invite your librarian into the pool!
Ask your librarian to come to your classroom or take your students to the library.
Finding the Best Resources
Presenter: Pat Hoberg and Dale DoddsSchool District: Warwick School District
Email:
Blog Notes on Finding the Best Resources for Your Projects
Presented by librarians
Blogged by JoAnne Hangen CFF Coach Lancaster (McCaskey HS)
TALK to your LIBRARIAN
- local search engine
- cybrarian
- copyright, fair use, ethical, legal expert
- information and resource specialists
- know how to set up project from a literacy standpoint
- collaborator, co-teacher
- counsultant
- know digital resources
- cheerleaders and commiseraters
- information literacy
- can help narrow down resources
Information Literate Students
- Know how to find resources
- Critically evaluates sources
Invisible Web – Subscription Databases have expensive resources that are already paid for by the state, school, or IU which means they are free for the teachers and students, moreover, they are better quality than those resources that are free to the whole world.
- the best resources are not necessary free
- schools have subscription databases, accessible from library homepage
- basic level, New Book of Knowledge,
- next level, World Book Online
-
- Power Library – phenomenal – can get from home – in school
Use monitored search engines
- Nettrekker – can have it read aloud to students, indicates reading level
Get ID and password from librarian or IU
Evaluate for reliability
– Velcro crop crisis – lesson to prove that if it is in print it isn’t necessarily true
-.edu but look for ~ (tilde) which means it is a personal website and may be biased
- Use Wikipedia for references and external links, but watch out for inaccuracies
- Google is in business to make money, not meant for good research
Destiny
- embedded search engine, looks to the web and library catalogue
- library book search and website search done simultaneously
- Web Path Express – gives just websites, leveled by grade, moderated
Subject Directories
- Internet Public Library
- Librarians’ Internet Index
- Kathy Schrock – good for 9th grade
- Blue Web’N
Books are not to be overlooked.
“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.” Linton Weeks, The Washington Post, January 13, 2001
Invite your librarian into the pool!
Ask your librarian to come to your classroom or take your students to the library.